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Holy shit!

We can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times … and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK,” Obama said.

“That’s not leadership. That’s not going to happen,” he added.

I’m gobsmacked. Floored. Stonked. Pole-axed. Out of synonyms for ‘fucking astonished.’ A candidate for President of the United States just told the American people he was going to force them to go hungry. So maybe the rest of the world will like us better.

Umm… and WTF does ‘appeasing the international community’ mean? What the hell are you supposed to have done? Exported a little much democracy?

Comment from Matt PTime: May 19, 2008, 11:22 am

You will pry my cheeseburger from my cold, dead, pudgy hands.

Seriously, the rest of the world better start playing nice or when we Obese-Americans run out of food they may start looking mighty tasty. Don’t worry about peak oil production folks– start worrying about peak bacon production cause hungry people are angry people.

Comment from Princess BernieTime: May 19, 2008, 11:23 am

Heaven help us. I’m too old to walk. I get cold when it’s 71 degrees. And when I’m hungry, I’m really grouchy.

And idiots vote for this fool. Thank goodness dems in Kentucky are voting for the smarter marxist vs. the stupid marxist.

(I do say that with some sarcasm. But not much.)

Comment from AllenTime: May 19, 2008, 11:27 am

Then his fans cheered… I think the next time I hear from an Obama supporter I’ll just go straight to open mockery. Of course making fun of what he says will be the next thing that is a “distraction.”

Why is it that every other country can do whatever they way but we’re expected to bend over backwards (or forwards as the case may be) for the so-called “international community”? What has the international community done for us?

You know, every state has the duty and obligation to be selfish, to seek the state’s interests even at the expense of other states’ interests. That’s why the state exists.

Comment from Gibby HaynesTime: May 19, 2008, 11:52 am

Well, look on the bright side – at least this chap isn’t running for the office of…oh, dear god. Well, at least he’s just some fringe whacko whose popularity is confined to…oh, sweet Jesus.
And so on.
By the way, you’re all racists and typical white people. Even you Musli.

And the media just lets stupid intention number 400 slip on by.
I understand how many people do not feel they have anyone to vote for this next election, and as awful as McCain is, how on earth can they allow Obama, the elitist moron, slide right into the White House by staying home?

I just don’t know. We and many of our friends have been putting our ducks in a row these past couple of years. But these f*cks in congress…that is their intention. They WANT as many as possible dependent. And the sheep, not educated in the indoctrination factories that were supposed to be schools, bleat ‘free healthcare’.

Yep, this is just the first step in taking away our liberty. They’ll do it because they “care” about the environment, but they’ll keep it because it gives them more power and control. If this kind of talk doesn’t scare peopel away, nothing will. Gongrats Dems, you nominated McGovern squared. As much of a nut job McGovern was, Obama makes him look like Ronald Reagan. McCain is so fucking lucky.

Comment from LokkiTime: May 19, 2008, 2:01 pm

I can’t haz cheezburger?

Most of the world secretly dream of becoming Americans, and having silly-big houses, and crazy-big cars. If America went completely to Hell(and really started living like Obama wants us to), they’d be sad. It would be like Marilyn Monroe getting breast reduction surgery.

Somebody needs to explain to this guy that making America poor won’t make Africa, India,South America, and the Middle East, rich. They need jobs which means they need someone to buy the things they make. Servants send their kids to college because somebody needed a maid.

Comment from S. WeaselTime: May 19, 2008, 2:18 pm

I had McDonald’s for lunch for the first time in, like, YEARS. Take that, mister Hope-o Change-o.

McDonald’s still sucks, by the way.

Comment from porknbeanTime: May 19, 2008, 2:24 pm

Somebody needs to explain to this guy that making America poor won’t make Africa, India,South America, and the Middle East, rich.

He doesn’t care. It is about ‘fairness’. If the third world shitholes are poor because they are ruled by despotic idiots, then we should be too. Remember his ‘fairness’ answer to the question ‘if lowering taxes brings an avalanche of revenue to the government, why raise them?’ It is about a hateful bunch of miserable f*cks wanting everyone to be just as miserable, but with only them keeping their incomes.

The turd world needs capitalism with the choice to become a maid, own a maid company, or employ a maid.

Comment from Princess BernieTime: May 19, 2008, 2:34 pm

Just Friday evening MWG and I were standing outside installing a tonneau cover on the bed of my new pick-up truck, drinking a beer and I thought, “How wonderful and relaxing this is – I can do what I want, when I want and drink a beer at the same time, outside in my driveway. Nobody can stop me from enjoying simple pleasures – yet.” Then I thought about B.O. and how if he’s elected, it’s the first step down the slippery slope of no beer and no pick up trucks. Or that I can’t drink a beer outside. Or own a gun. Or they’ll take away my concealed carry permit.

For a split second, I felt a knot in my stomach thinking about it. But then I remembered that it hasn’t happened and hopefully it won’t.

But just in case I think I’ll stock up on beer and ammo.

Comment from Matt PTime: May 19, 2008, 3:03 pm

To someone like Obama the world is a zero sum game, if someone wins then someone must have lost. Mind you that kind of mind set says there is only be a limited amount of wealth in the world and that nothing can change that fact. Hence you have a man who sees any US gain as some poor country’s loss and who sees conservation as the only way to deal with scarcity.

The obvious retort is that proper use of capital actually creates wealth and value synergisticly and that it is actually possible for everyone to succeed if they use their resources wisely.

Liberals always want us to be open minded, when in reality they are the ones locked in to an unimaginative and flawed world view.

That said, stocking up on beer and ammo is always a good idea, except I’m always tempted to use them both on the way home from buying them.

Ran across an anecdote some years back, I believe related by Jay Nordlinger at NRO, telling the story of a couple visiting a small village in India. There, they met a man who was intensely curious about them and asked many questions of them. When they asked him of his curiosity, he replied “Oh, you must have done something wonderful to be reborn as Americans!”

Somebody needs to explain to this guy that making America poor won’t make Africa, India,South America, and the Middle East, rich.

He doesn’t care. It is about ‘fairness’. If the third world shitholes are poor because they are ruled by despotic idiots, then we should be too. Remember his ‘fairness’ answer to the question ‘if lowering taxes brings an avalanche of revenue to the government, why raise them?’ It is about a hateful bunch of miserable f*cks wanting everyone to be just as miserable, but with only them keeping their incomes.

E-X-A-C-T-L-Y right.

Comment from porknbeanTime: May 19, 2008, 6:24 pm

Okay, I just showed my son what the dipwad said. He says, ‘Why do we need SUVs and fat people anyway.’ The shit better have been trying to piss me off.

Dude, who the hell can afford to keep their house at 72 all the damn time? In the winter that thing sits at 62 and if you want it warmer you better put on your parka. In the summer there’s no AC unless it’s above 80. My mother and I share my fucking truck (which means I do a lot of craptastic public transport), and do our damndest to plan meals to be as inexpensive as possible. O! can fuck off with a wheel of cheap-ass American cheese!

During the winter, I keep the downstairs at 72, upstairs at 68…which means because the downstairs is at 72, the other furnace doesn’t click on as much. During the summer, 80 for both. Because of the energy efficient heating/cooling and proper insulation, our energy bill is about the same or less than my parents 3 bedroom ranch.

Comment from S. WeaselTime: May 19, 2008, 6:48 pm

I think 72 is symbolic. Didn’t Jimmah implore us to reduce it from 72 to 68 and put on a sweater?

You know when my thermostat is set to 72? Christmas Day, that’s when. The rest of the time, it’s 60. Stupid 66-year-old boiler…

Comment from TattooedIntellectualTime: May 19, 2008, 6:50 pm

Dammit all to hell, that anon up there is me. Stupid computer can’t remember shit.

So, other countries are the boss of us? Is that what’s really going on in Obama’s mind? Oh and 72 degrees? Hell, I can’t afford that, at any time of year. You put more clothes on when it’s cold and take more off when it’s hot. Forget an SUV, I can’t afford that either. Sheesh, these politicians are all a complete waste of oxygen.

Comment from Barry O.Time: May 19, 2008, 11:00 pm

Oh yeah: We’ll be outlawing meat, too. For the children. In Venezuela.

Like Geraghty says, scripture has been rewritten. Faith, hope, and change, and the greatest of these is change.

Comment from AllenTime: May 20, 2008, 12:49 am

Taxidea Taxus, they are a species of special concern here in California. Some of them tend to bite. The sub species include Taxidae Taxus Boxerus, Taxidae Taxus Dianneus, Taxidae Taxus Pelosius, and Taxidae Taxus Schwartzaneggerus.

Okay, lolspeak is cute in the pictures because you can just imagine some critters talking like that if they can, but when it is in the comments with every word….WTF? I can’t follow without getting annoyed.
Cute thermostat cat, though.

Comment from Uncle BadgerTime: May 20, 2008, 5:22 am

Thank you, Iamfelix! Viking badgers, whatever next?

As for biting people’s faces off… we have our moments 😉

At the wildlife sanctuary the Weasel and I got to now and then, all the creatures’ enclosures have signs saying ‘This animal may bite’. Except for my stripey-faced relatives. Their sign reads ‘This creature will bite’.

It’s true, too! Though mostly all they do is sleep and eat.

Ever wondered how I got this name?

Comment from TattooedIntellectualTime: May 20, 2008, 7:03 am

There are some hilarious signs up at the Wellington Zoo. They’re usually three step signs–> picture of small boy sitting on railing, picture of small boy falling into tiger enclosure, picture of small boy being eaten = Don’t sit on the enclosure railing.

Comment from TimB52Time: May 20, 2008, 10:30 am

How about a hi-res version of that side-bar pic? I want one for my Desktop so all the loser Oblammo fans around me can see it!

Comment from S. WeaselTime: May 20, 2008, 1:14 pm

Hm. What’s your monitor resolution? I can’t make a hi-res version from that graphic — I nicked that off of his site and it’s same-size — but there’s the big, folded-arm shot of him going around. If you’d really and truly put it on your monitor, I’d consider flinging something together just for you.

If you’re wondering why that folded-arms shot gets used so much, it’s because it’s floating out there in a resolution like 2000 by 3000 pixels. That’s a Photoshopper’s dream.

Comment from TimB52Time: May 20, 2008, 1:55 pm

Hi Weaz!

Running at 1280×1024 and oh you bet that I would put that on my desktop. I am surrounded by Portland, OR (*spit*) liberals! Maybe we can get them to stop just for a second about WTF they are voting for!

PS: You are just wicked funny. Love this site!

Comment from S. WeaselTime: May 20, 2008, 2:15 pm

Okay, how’s this? Or do you want the design smaller and in the middle with more space around it? Different slogan?

Personally, I like my desktop dark — I can do that, too. Cameo him in the middle fading to black around the edges.

The lengths I’ll go to to avoid doing the job I’m paid to do…

Comment from TimB52Time: May 20, 2008, 2:42 pm

Bwahahaha! OMG! That is fantastic!
On my desktop now.
Let’s check out the reaction…

Weasel…there has got to be a bumper sticker in there someplace. Now that I have a version of GIMP that starts with a “2,” my wife may let me have my crayons back as soon as I’ve bugged her with enough “How do I …”

Weasel, the big wallpaper thing is great but where are his big ears? He looks almost normal in your wallpaper. Smug but normal.

Comment from S. WeaselTime: May 21, 2008, 7:53 am

I contend that he doesn’t have big ears, he has a skinny face.

Comment from nyc123meTime: May 21, 2008, 11:28 am

Nods, the guy’s a fucking clown.
..not that McCain or Hillybeast are much better.

Comment from nbpunditTime: May 22, 2008, 1:27 am

The Obamagator has jumped the shark…

Comment from SethTime: May 23, 2008, 4:19 pm

Is this the only thing the right wing fringe has left for an argument?

“He’s not going to let our fat asses get any fatter!?!”

What part of “overwhelming scientific data” do you not understand in regards to potentially irreversible effects of global warming?

When did you all get so damn entitled? It would be absolutely impossible for the 7+ billion people of the world to live in the excess that we Americans do. And it is utterly undeniable that the majority of the world suffers for our careless exploitation.

Why pretend he’s calling for us to abandon automobiles all together, to live without heat and to abandon our food supply. He’s simply asking for more efficient energy and food policies that allow for renewable resources.

We need the earth. It doesn’t need us. Your attitude is suicide. Maybe not for you, but for generations to come.

Finding common ground. Compassion for others. Aren’t these American/Christian virtues?

Hey! Booger-brain! Suicide is something you do to yourself – not “generations to come”, dipwad.

And who the fiddly fuck cares what the rest of the world is suffering under/from while we sit fat ‘n happy! I say: let ’em die. The quicker they die, the sooner we can get the natural resources they’re too stupid or lazy to mine for themselves, and we can raise more fat kids! besides, they shouldn’t be on the land our property is under anyway. it stands to reason.

Besides, who gave you the right to criticize our/my lifestyle. I sure as hell didn’t approve your membership here. Obviously you are an idiot because I disagree with you. So there!

Oh! And I’m not a Christian, or an “anything else” either. So screw your compassion. Impale your compassion on this (holds up middle finger)!

thanks for the kind welcome. i must say your nihilism is refreshingly honest. wish the rest of the right-wing could be so forthright.

link had some valid points. certainly there have been some to quick too say the sky is falling. but just because an unknown professor from a third-tier university wants to equate the few who made wild predictions about global cooling with the vast majority of the scientific community that verifies global warming doesn’t make it so.

intellectual dishonesty aside, there really wasn’t one tangible argument against the existence of man-induced global warming. not even an attempt really.

Or is Seth pulling the typical inane leftist idiocy of blaming the group (or site) for what an individual (me) did, or automatically assigning all attributes of a label to someone who manifests one or two of the pertinent characteristics? Dipshit.

Seth – you are not even worth my time.

I meant the “good piece of coast” line, Weasel. But that isn’t important now. And – yes – I spell the raspberry sound Pbbbt!

Why – you ask? Because I am an American – and I can.

Comment from SethTime: May 23, 2008, 5:39 pm

steamboat mcgoo seems to be the unique formation of a solipsistic nihilist. i was responding to weasel. hadn’t even seen your comment. but honestly, “booger-brain”, “dipwad”? do you still play in actual sandbox?

And Badger, I take your 31,000 scientists and raise you every scientific body of national or international standing:

And it is utterly undeniable that the majority of the world suffers for our careless exploitation.

I’m denying it.

I’ll give you this much, though: farm subsidies hurt the developing world. For example, there is a dumbass rule that U.S. food aid to poor countries must come from American farmers rather than farmers in the area. So less food aid goes to those people, because of the increased costs for storage and transportation. That’s just one example.

By the way, President Bush is the one trying to get rid of that rule. Democrats (and some pork-laden Republicans) are the ones trying to keep it.

And I believe McGoo DOES play in the sandbox. In fact, I hear he buried a special surprise there for you just the other day!

Comment from SethTime: May 23, 2008, 6:04 pm

Badger,

Interesting links. Will give some due reflection. Anything quoting Mencken is at least worth a glance.

I think you’ve got this lefty wrong. We, too, are hedonists at heart (Look how much we love sex – that’s why we don’t eat so much – we prefer physically attractive partners). It’s just a matter or how long one wishes to keep one’s own head in the sand, ignore the elephant in the room [insert cliched metaphor here].

Agree with you that the social scientists should be involved. But since when was McCain a leftist politcian?

Thanks for the civil discourse. How come they haven’t kicked you off this site yet?

Comment from S. WeaselTime: May 23, 2008, 6:04 pm

Seth, I’ve been known to try to engage in honest argument with leftists in the past. It’s a hard thing to do, because you have to take big issues and break them up into little, tiny pieces and then argue those pieces individually. That’s because both sides have built up gigantic piles of dogma in support of their overarching agendas.

After a careful examination of the evidence, I think your side is wrong and mine is right. But arguing the point would be a shitload of work and I’m lazy. And the general tone of this blog lends itself more to a discussion of magic rocks and Charlton Heston’s ass.

Therefore, here: have a flaming bag of snark. No, no…it’s on me.

Comment from S. WeaselTime: May 23, 2008, 6:06 pm

And Uncle B hasn’t been kicked off this site because I sleep with him.

Ever seen, “Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats!”?

If not, I know a site you should visit – and comment on.

And watch out for Badger – his horticulture-fu is awesome. He’ll have your plants eating you before you know it.

…And no one has been kicked off this site that I know about. That is mostly something Left sites do.

Comment from TattooedIntellectualTime: May 23, 2008, 6:13 pm

Did Seth just say that lefties are skinny and attractive and have more sex, implying that righties are fat, ugly, virgins?

Wow, Swease, you have definitely moved up in the world. Have fun playing with your troll.

Comment from Uncle BadgerTime: May 23, 2008, 6:13 pm

I can’t resist a brief rejoinder about slim Leftists. I just looked up at the (silent) TV running in the background to see Michael Moore waddling into the Cannes Film Festival.

The case for the prosecution rests, M’lud…

Comment from AllenTime: May 23, 2008, 6:16 pm

I “lumme” some chaotic systems.

Seth, in a chaotic system such as the climate the forcing factors may change as a function of some other variable, i.e. the effect of CO2 may actually go down as a function of temperature. We do not know a priori how the forcing factors change. The GC models assumes fixed forcing factors.

Meanwhile back to Gorgeous Tiny Chicken Machine. Speaking of global warming it’s 35 or, 1.5 for the Celsius folks, at my place in the mountains, I hope it snows tonight. Woohoo, Rumpleminze may be in order.

Comment from Uncle BadgerTime: May 23, 2008, 6:18 pm

Oh, and thanks for the hat tip, MGoo. Regular fans of Uncle Badger’s Gardening Korner might like to know that his Giant Banana is rampant once more, having fully recovered from the surgical detumesence of earlier this year.

And all badgers snore. It’s part of our charm. Along with the fleas.

The lice, not so much.

Comment from S. WeaselTime: May 23, 2008, 6:18 pm

Oh, god, Allen is talking science. I think there was some Latin in there. That is hawt.

Seth said they “prefer” attractive partners. He did not say they actually got any. The few leftist women I have slept with in my long bachelor life tended to smell and be skinny and skanky. But you probably suspected that of my standards anyway.

He was right about the “hedonist” characterization: he simply doesn’t realize how totally the word fits them. Faux Intellectualistic Hedonism is as good a description of the Left as any. Any idea is good so long as it feels good. And no idea that feels bad should be entertained.

Comment from SethTime: May 23, 2008, 6:22 pm

i’ll hand it you yall, you’re in an interesting lot. i couldn’t be more ideologically opposed, but i’ll take interesting over ideologically sound most days.

Allen is right about forcing factors. Last I read, CO2 seems to have been a lagging indicator for temperature change historically – e.g. increasing temperature (from the sun, stupid) increases CO2, not the other way around.

But why waste time on this. Thank you Badger! I am really glad the banananana is functional again.

Badger – Does your family crest have a Banana Rampant on it. Mine just has a stupid ol’ lion.

Comment from TattooedIntellectualTime: May 23, 2008, 6:28 pm

Oh no, Swease, he ran away.

BTW, y’all haven’t heard nearly as much of my job-hunting whining as GCP, but I would like to share that I have managed to land a real job in my field!!!

Comment from S. WeaselTime: May 23, 2008, 6:29 pm

Seth is a cat man. He hath set his foot upon the path.

I visited the pound kitties again today. As gob is my witness, I’m going to get that big orange bastard a home! If I have to buy him a condo…

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